Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hearings will start today at 2:15 in the State Capitol on five bills which would compel private colleges to expel Communists and Communist sympathizers from their teaching staffs. The Committee on Education will conduct the hearings to decide whether it should support the bills and pass them on to the Legislature for action...
Furiously maneuvering, the Premier forced a midnight session, and presented a hurriedly revised budget, in order to compel a new test of strength. He still could not find the votes. It began to look as if Mendès would be overthrown before he could get a vote on the Paris accords. Suddenly, out of the blue, two Deputies of Bidault's M.R.P. announced that they would switch their votes. At 4:30 a.m., Mendès' revised Indo-China budget was accepted by just two votes, 295 to 293. The Mendès government was saved...
Judge Matthew Hill demurred. "What the residents of Chehalis would not be compelled to do one by one," he said in a dissenting opinion, "it is now sought to compel them to do en masse . . . This smacks more of the police state than of the police power...
Beyond the proganda suicide of blocking the Conference and repudiating our promise, we feel it is worth trying for progress in security matters. The most pressing need is for disarmament, and the ever present threat of was may compel a sufficient community of interest to secure it. The Soviet Union has been known to jump on the band-wagon before--especially when it became clear that it would be to its advantage: witness Russia's recent acceptance of the jurisdiction of the World Court in order to gain membership in the International Labor Organization. In addition, it looks...
...appeal to the courts. They could not sue Harvard themselves, nor force the Attorney General to do so; yet their strongest feeling has been that some judicial test is necessary. The case of John S. Ames et al.V.Attorney General, therefore , is for a writ of Mandamus to compel Fingold to rehear their application according to "a proper appreciation of his own duty and the rules of law applicable to the questions involved "Meanwhile there were still quiet efforts to smooth out affairs. Two Association directors had been meeting with Harvard officials, and once a nonlegal delegation discussed the case with...